Swiss Movement
Occupation
- Les McCann: Piano, Vocal on Compared to What
- Eddie Harris: Tenor Saxophone
- Benny Bailey: trumpet
- Leroy Vinnegar: Bass
- Donald Dean: Drums
Swiss Movement is a jazz album by Eddie Harris and Les McCann, which was acquired on June 21, 1969 live at the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland.
History
The Les McCann Trio, Eddie Harris and Benny Bailey took on at the Montreux Jazz Festival, one of the most famous jazz albums in the late 1960s. The musicians played mostly free improvised together without a trial. Eddie Harris Les McCann playing looked over his shoulder to see the chords ( as he himself formerly played piano ).
The most popular song of the album, Compared to What, an indictment of the Vietnam War, and You Got it in Your Soul Ness and Cold Duck Time included spirited solos from McCann, Harris and Bailey.
The song Compared to What reached because of the theming of the unwanted war, racism and poverty quickly a cult status in the African American students.
Reception
The plate was reacted favorably to enthusiastic critical acclaim. Frank Becker wrote: One of the most brilliant jazz LPs of the 1960s, if not one of the largest in the second half of the 20th century at all, is the legendary live recording of the grand concert of Les McCann & Eddie Harris with Benny Bailey at the Jazz Festival of Montreux on 21 June 1969.
Greg Boraman wrote about the album at BBC.co.uk:
"Something of a happy accident, this recording from the 1969 Montreux Jazz Festival Has Actually become one of the most Talked about, exhilarating and fun live jazz performances ever captured on wax. "
" It has something of a happy accident, this recording from the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1969, even one of the most talked about, berauschensten and funniest live jazz performances ever pressed into vinyl. "
The rough guide to jazz called the album the ultimate fun -funk album that has the festival in Montreux brought almost as much as the career of the two protagonists.